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Today I did not check the news. Then I received an email from a friend, titled “DOW and YOUR MOOD”.
He said my mood today might be the same as DOW (Dow Jones hit 2nd highest rise EVER), because once it hits low it will bounce back.
On an unrelated note, sometimes my own actions puzzle myself: today I decided to cook the chicken which has been in my fridge (the low deck) for 1.5 week. I knew there are risks with eating this chicken, but I could not accept the fact that I bought a perfectly fine chicken and it is rotten just when I decided I want to eat it. So I cooked it. Strange smell arose from the pan — the first red flag. So I thought I will ignore this sign and sprinkle some curry powder and coconut milk and spoonful of cream of chicken on it. For sure these things will cover up the wierd taste from a semi-rotten chicken. After that, I tried a piece of chicken — it tastes a mix of the conspicuously sweet flavor of a semi-rotten chicken. So I cooked the chicken with onions (LOTS OF ONIONS) in hopes of dispelling that taste. I tasted the chicken — still strange. Now that I have put all these work and time on the chicken, I decided I just HAVE TO eat it. So I ate it.
Consequence: I have to run to bathroom right now.
P.S. I have this chocolate mousse I made (after a lot of sweat) last Friday. Chocolate mousse contains raw eggs. But it has been awhile. Hmm….should I eat it?
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Just that you know, poultry is pretty much the most sensitive meat that you can have. While beef is sometimes even better when you let it age (=rot) for a while (if you know how to do it), poultry lasts at most for two or three days and then you can pretty much throw it away. And the smell of rotten poultry is really disgusting (as you must have realized). The problem is exacerbated by the way how poultry is processed before it is brought to the supermarket.
When I buy poultry, it must either go to the freezer the same day, or be consumed the next day. No exceptions.
With the chocolate mousse… have you done it yourself or did you buy it? If you bought it, then you might want to check if it really contains fresh eggs – some supermarket-purchased “mousses” don’t.
Comment by pinus October 28, 2008 @ 9:08 pmJust that you know, poultry is pretty much the most sensitive meat that you can have. While beef is sometimes even better when you let it age (=rot) for a while (if you know how to do it), poultry lasts at most for two or three days and then you can pretty much throw it away. And the smell of rotten poultry is really disgusting (as you must have realized). The problem is exacerbated by the way how poultry is processed before it is brought to the supermarket.
When I buy poultry, it must either go to the freezer the same day, or be consumed the next day. No exceptions.
With the chocolate mousse… have you done it yourself or did you buy it? If you bought it, then you might want to check if it really contains fresh eggs – some supermarket-purchased “mousses” don’t.
Comment by pinus October 28, 2008 @ 9:10 pmI made my own mousse — that’s why I really really want to eat it and not throw at away due to the effort put into making it!
Comment by Wendy October 28, 2008 @ 11:30 pmOK, I understand that, this is very tempting.
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Comment by pinus October 29, 2008 @ 12:04 amYou know what? Next time you make mousse, you invite us and we’ll make sure that nothing gets spoiled
Sorry for posting the previous comment twice, I have no idea why that happened.
Eating rotten food… You need a strong stomach not to get sick from that. The mousse… 4 days is not enough for it to go bad (unless the eggs were originally contaminated). But If you are already having food poisining issues then do not eat anything with raw eggs or rich sauces or too much fat or else you will blow out your liver in a heart beat (and believe me, it’s very painful and takes some time to recover). I think you should just offer the mousse and the hazelnut cream…
Comment by louis October 29, 2008 @ 12:09 amat work: 無心戀戰
Comment by katherine October 29, 2008 @ 3:35 pmOn a positive side, you probably lost 2-3 lbs because of the diarrhea… so now you have more quota for the Halloween sweets
Comment by hunnie910 October 29, 2008 @ 6:31 pmWendy, I cannot really understand this. So you knew that it had turned bad but you were using things to cover up the rotten smell…?
How did it help? Alternatively, if you used the curry powder + coconut milk to just cook the onion, you might have a decent onion meal. 
(Haven’t had Portuguese chicken for a long time… miss it.)
Anyway, hope that you are feeling better. Don’t be silly Wendy!
Comment by Jessica October 30, 2008 @ 5:12 pm